Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
… Coleridge wrote in his pocket-book format notebooks, often in an elliptic way, work projects, snatches of poems, thinking processes, observations, meditations, evocations. His most famous notebook recounts with great topographic accuracy … ‘ […] the portrait and impress of the mood of the moment – birds of passages – or Bubbles 2 […] processes of a mind working toward truth (NB 6450) ‘ 3 2 . Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 5, … and social reality, marks them also as spaces for sociability and active participants in the imaginative act of poetry-making. By comparing poets’ notebooks, we may read this reciprocity between the place and sociability, between sociability …
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